Manifolding



March 1939- 4 w. G. BORCHERS ET AL 2,150,533

MANIFOLDING Original Filed March 2, 193a Patented Mar. 14, 1939 PATENT OFFICE MANIFOLDING William G. Borchers and Nicholas Cirillo, Ho-

boken, N. J., assignors to Autographic Register sey 00., Hoboken, N. J., a corporation of New Jer- Orig'inal application March 2, 1936, Serial No.

66,568. Divided and this application May 18,

1936, Serial No. 80,224

9 Claims.

This invention relates to manifolding, and, more particularly, to record strips for use in manifolding machines of the'kind having means for feeding a plurality of continuous strips over a writing platen and for stopping advancement of the strips when fed a form-length and for maintaining the strips in registration.

For proper coaction with said means, previous record strips have been provided with feed-arresting form-registering physical alterations, placed at form-length intervals along the strip. These alterations have been apertures, that is, openings located wholly within the body of the strip, or intra-marginally thereof, and at the same time have been placed at points along the strip removed from the lines across the strip along which the forms are to be severed. The present application is a division of our copending application Serial Number 66,568, filed March 2, 1936.

The present invention provides a record strip having novel and valuable feed-arresting formregistering physicalalterations placed at formlength intervals along the same.

An object is to provide such a strip, wherein said alterations are marginally placed.

Another object is to provide a record strip for a manifolding device, such strip of the kind having weakened tear-off lines at form-length instrip because having feed-arresting form-registering physical alterations which are at or intersected by said lines, whether these'physical alterations be marginally placed as just abovementioned, or be located intra-marginally or wholly within the body of the strip.

Another object of the invention is to provide a record strip for a manifolding device, such strip of the kind having weakened tear-ofi lines at form-length intervals along the same, and an improved such strip because having feed-arresting form-registering physical alterations which are formed at said lines in such manner that a part of the boundary of each of these physical alterations is coincident with one of said lines. I

By the attainment of the objects last-recited there is provided an improved record strip having a number of important advantages.

Such an improved record strip is particularly adapted to be folded zigzag fashion with a plurality of its fellows along tear-off lines at formlength intervals along the strips so that the folds of one strip along these lines interengage with those of other strips to provide manifolding sets of superimposed form-length record sheets or tervals along the same, and an improved such' forms; thereby to provide an improved zigzag folded assembly of a plurality of record strips. In such an assembly, especially, the new feedarresting form-registering physical alterations provided by the present invention have been found to be very advantageous.

When these alterations are present at the long sides of the record strips, that is, as marginally cutaway portions, and they also are located at the lines of severance between forms (preferably as substantially V-shaped notches), they facilitate the separation of the forms at their intended tear-off lines; severance at such lines being partially started by said cutaway portions, with the result that severance is materially assisted. They assist also in folding a plurality of record strips, along the tear-off lines at form-length intervals therealong, into zigzag folded piles or packets. These marginal cutaway portions also remove the feed-arresting form-registering openings in the forms, said cutaway portions/acting as said openings, to locations completely non-interferent with any typographical requirements.

Again, whether these marginal cut-outs are or are not located at the lines of severance between forms, their marginal placement is of advantage in connection with the feeding of the strips through a familiar and widelyv employed type of manifolding machine having form-feeding means including devices or surfaces for engaging a strip at spaced points laterally thereof and for coacting with cutaway portions or physical alterations in the strip in providing feed-arresting means operative after a strip has been advanced a formlength extent. In other words, a strip having marginal cut-outs pursuant to the present invention allows said feeding devices or surfaces, as embodied, for instance, in an annular feeding means including a pair of disks spaced laterally of the strip, to be so placed in the manifolding machine as to have these surfaces engage the forms, for feeding thereof, along lines which are spaced one from another across the forms a maximum amount, and, consequently, with maximum efficiency in advancing the forms without any side-slip of all of the forms of a set or any sideslip of any one form of a set relative to another form of that set.

Also, and especially when the marginal cutouts are substantially triangular or V-shaped notches, there is a considerable saving in the manufacture of the forms. For example, when intra-marginal openings, or apertures, are em.-

ployed as the feed-arresting form-registering openings in the forms, six punches and dies across are required for a triplicate job, that, is, one in which there are three superposed forms in a set; whereas, with the marginal cut-outs, due to the very locations of these, the punches and dies would be in the form of a triangle, and for the same triplicate job only four would be required across.

When the new feed-arresting form-registering physical alterations are present intra-marginally, or within the bodies of ,the strips so as to present feed-arresting form-registering apertures, they are located at or intersected by the lines of severance. In this case, also, they offer least interference to any possibly desired printing arrangement. Furthermore, and especially when they are, in accordance with another feature of the invention, preferably extended wholly into the leading or follower end of a form, these apertures, also facilitate folding of a plurality of record slips zigzag fashion at form-length intervals to provide a zigzag folded pile. And said apertures, also, facilitate severance of any set of forms from the record strips; by providing distinct and extra weaknesses along the appointed lines of severance despite the fact that the feedarresting form-registering physical alterations constituted by these apertures are not located terminally of. such lines. This facility of severance is further increased if a part of the boundary of each feed-arresting form-registering aperture is made straight and coextensive with a part of the line of severance whereat the aperture is located.

Generally speaking, and for many purposes, the location of the feed-arresting form-registering physical alterations at the lines of severance between successive forms is now considered most desirable; as is also the constitution of these physical alterations as marginal notches instead of intra-marginal openings in the bodies of the strips which carry the forms.

The invention will be more clearly understood and the foregoing and other objects and advantages appreciated, from the following description of the illustrative embodiments shown in the accompanying drawing, in which:

Figure 1 is a fragmentary plan view showing, in addition to certain dot-and-dash delineations hereinafter referred to, a pair of successive forms at the severance line between which are cutaway portions of the follower form, these portions being V-shaped notches at the side margins of the follower form.

Fig. 2 shows the forms of Figure 1 in process of separation at the severance line.

Fig. 3 is a view similar to Figure l, but show- P ing a pair of successive forms at the severance line between which are apertures extended into the body of the follower form.

Fig. 4 is a view similar to Fig. 3, but showing a pair of successive forms at the severance line between which are apertures extended into the body of the leading form.

Fig. 5 is a perspective view of a zigzag folded stack or pile of a plurality of record strips, the

forms of which have their cutaway portions located and shaped as in Figures 1 and 2.

Fig. 6 is a view similar to Fig. 5, but with such pile including a plurality of strips, the forms of which have cutawayportions as in Fig. 3.

Referring to the exemplary form of the invention shown in Figures 1 and 2, a pair of forms fragmentarily illustrated at 20 and 2| are shown as having a line of severance therebetween constituted by a perforated line 22, and, as illustrated in the case of the form 2|, each form is shown as provided with two similar feed-arresting form-registering marginal notches 23, symmetrically oppositely placed, and aligned across the form. Also, as these notches are shown, they are at the line 22, and provide triangular cutouts with one side of the triangle forming a prolongation of the line 22, whereby tearing off of a set of forms along that line, no matter how slightly the latter is weakened, is always assured. Fig. 2 illustrates such a tearing off operation in course of performance.

Feed-arresting form-registering physical alterations in the shape of marginally cutaway portions of the forms and the location of these cut away portions at the lines of severance between the forms are advantageous particularly for the reasons already mentioned, to wit, to facilitate separation of the forms at their intended lines of severance, to assist folding the forms into zigzag piles, and to remove the arresting openings in the forms to locations completely non-interferent with typographical requirements.

Referring to the exemplary form of the invention shown in Figs. 3 and 4, the same two forms 20 and 2| are shown as provided with feed-arresting form-registering cutaway portions which, while they are intra-marginal openings or apertures, are, as already explained; variously advantageous over apertures heretofore proposed. These advantages result from the locations of such apertures. Both the apertures shown in Fig. 3 at 24 and the apertures shown in Fig. 4 at 25,'like the notches 23 of Figure 1, are located at the tear-off lines 22 between successive forms. As the new apertures are here shown, they are not only thus located, but are preferably shaped so as to have a straight side coincident with the tear-off line-'this straight side being the leading boundary of each aperture 24, since these apertures are in the leading end of the follower form 2|, and being the trailing boundary of each aperture 25, since these-apertures are in the follower end of the leading form 20.

Thus, as in the case of notches 23 of Figure 1, these apertures 24 and.25 can be not only placed at the tear-off lines between forms, but they can also be extended if desired, and as is now recommended, wholly into the leading or the follower end of a form; thereby to facilitate in the maximum degree folding of the forms when they are parts of a plurality of zigzag inter-folded strips. At the same time, severance of the forms is facilitated by providing distinct and extra weaknesses along the appointed lines for such severance.

Fig. 5, showing a plurality of record strips carrying the forms of Figures 1 and 2, illustrates how the feed-arresting form-registering notches 23 become disposed incidental to facilitate folding of these record strips; and Fig. 6, showing a plurality of record strips carrying the forms of Fig. 3, furnishes a similar illustration in regard to. the strips last-mentioned.

In the case of the embodiment illustrated in Figure l, feeding disks of the kind hereinabove referred to are indicated by dot-and-dash lines as located at Ma.

In a manifolding device to handle record strips having feed-arresting form-registering cutaway portions intra-marginal like the apertures 23 and 24 of Figs. 3 and 4, such disks would be located as indicated by dot-and-dash lines at 40!; in these views.

In Fig. 3, the line 40c indicates the axis of ro tation of the disks there shown, as well. also as tion, all of the strips having weakened tear-off 15 lines at form-length intervals, and having a portion cut out therefrom at a point adjacent the tear-off lines, the cut-out portions being arranged in pairs in the strip and having one edge thereof forming a straight line coincident with the weakened tear-off line with cut-out portions extending wholly within the same form-length, the cut outs extending into the leading end of the form-length sufficiently to form feed-arresting form-registering apertures adapted to cooperate with the feed 25 mechanism of the machine with which it is to be used.

2. A manifolding pile comprising a plurality of continuous record strips in superposed relation,

all of the strips having weakened tear-oft lines at form-length intervals, and having a portion cut out from each marginal edge at a point adjacent the tear-off lines, the cut-out portions being ar-' ranged in pairs in the strip and having one edge thereof forming a straight line coincident with the weakened tear-01f line so that both cut-out portions lie wholly within the same form-length, the cut-outs extending into the form-length sufliciently to form feed-arresting form-registering apertures adapted to cooperate with the feeding mechanism of the register with which it is to'be used.

3. A manifolding pile comprising a plurality of continuous record strips in superposed relation, all of the strips having weakened tearoff lines at 5 form-length intervals, and having a portion cut out therefrom at a point adjacent the tear-off.

lines, the cut-out portions being arranged in pairs on the strip and having one edge thereof forming a straight line coincident with the weakened tearoflz' line so that both cut-out portions lie wholly within the same form-length, the cut-outs extending into the form-length sufliciently to form feed-arresting form-registering apertures adaptedlto cooperate with the feeding mechanism of i 55 the register with which it is to be used.

4. A manifolding pile comprising a plurality of continuous record strips in superposed relation, all of the strips having weakened tear-off lines at form-length intervals; and having D- shaped portions cut out therefrom at a point adjacent the tear-off lines, the cut-outportions being arranged in pairs in the strip and having the straight edge thereof forming a straight line coincident with the weakened tear-off line so that both cut-out portions lie wholly within the same form-length, the cut-outs extending into the form-length sufficiently to form feed-arresting form-registering apertures adapted to cooperate with the feedingmechanism of the'register with 70 which it is to be used. A

5. A manifolding pile comprising a plurality of continuous record strips in superposed relation, all of the strips having weakened tear-off lines at form-length intervals, and having a V- shaped portion cut out from each marginal edge at a point adjacent the tear-off lines, thecutout portions being arranged in pairs in the strip and having one edge thereof forming a straight line coincident with the weakened tear-off line so that both cut-out portions lie wholly within the same form-length, the cut-outs extending into the form-length sufficiently to form feedarresting form-registering apertures adapted to cooperate 'with the feeding mechanism of the register with which it is to be used.

6. A form-carrying strip for a manifolding device having weakened tear-oif lines at formlength intervals along the strip and having a plurality of cut-outs at each of said lines, a complete straight line boundary of each of said cutouts being coincident with one of said lines with the cut-outs extending into the form sufiiciently to provide feed-arresting form-registering apertures for cooperation with the feeding mechanism of a register with which it is. to be used..

7. A manifolding pile comprising a plurality of continuous record strips in superposed relation, all of the strips having weakened tear-off lines at form-length intervals, and having a portion cut out therefrom at a point adjacent the tearoff lines, the cut-out portions being arranged in pairs in the strip and having one edge thereof forming a straight line coincident with the weakened tear-off line with cut-out portions extending wholly within the same form-length, the cutouts extending into the trailing edge of the formlength sufiicient to form feed-arresting formregistering apertures adapted'to cooperate with the feed mechanism of the machine with which it is to be used.

8. A manifolding pilecomprising a plurality of continuous record strips in superposed relation, all of the strips having weakened tear-off lines at form-length intervals, and having a portion cut out from each marginal edge at a point adjacent the tear-off lines, the cut-out portions being arranged in pairs in the strip and having one edge thereof forming a straight line coincident with the weakened tear-off line so that both cut-out portions lie wholly within the same form-length, the cut-outs extending into the form-length substantially to form feed-arresting apertures adapted to cooperate with the feeding mechanism of the device with which itis to be used.

9. A manifolding pile comprising a plurality of continuous record strips in superposed relation,

allof the strips having weakened tear-off lines at form1ength intervals, and having a portion cut out therefrom at a point adjacent the tearoperate with the feeding mechanism of the device with which it is to be used.

WILLIAM o. BORCHERS; NICHQLAS omrLLo. 

